Monday, 25 December 2017

Thousands of people protested in northeast Morocco on Monday against economic marginalisation after two young men died while digging in an abandoned coal mine.The deaths on Friday of the two brothers, aged 23 and 30, sparked a wave of anger in the city of Jerada, according to Moroccan media.

Chelsea manager Antonio Conte says that he has to make some tough decisions when his players make mistakes, also telling the club website that he is glad he didn’t begin his managerial career by taking on a top job too soon.Conte arrived at Stamford Bridge in 2016 and won the title in his first season. This year has been tougher with four defeats from 19 games, coupled with Manchester City’s incredible form, leaving the champions in fourth place — 16 points off the top.

Serena Williams will make her much-anticipated competitive return with an exhibition match on the final day of the Mubadala exhibition event on December 30, tournament organisers announced Sunday.The 36-year-old, who has won an Open-era record 23 Grand Slam singles titles, will take on reigning French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko.

Rave Nigerian rock star, Dabyna, Son of Rock, was allegedly assaulted and battered by the manager of the newly rebranded Alba Lounge, located at 1, Anifowose Street, off KofoAbayomi, Victoria Island, Lagos. The lounge which was recently rebranded and changed from Shades Lounge to Alba Lounge had just opened its new brand on the 1st of December when the incident occurred on the 6th of December 2017. Dabyna who has become a regular performer in the club for his featured event, Dabyna Café has received huge followership for his live performances and engagements at the lounge before the lounge was rebranded and renamed.

Nollywood filmmaker, Ruth Kadiri on Sunday night moved to the next level in her life, as she got engaged to the man of her dream. The actress said ‘Yes’ at early hours of December 25. She took to Instagram to share the photo of her diamond ring.

The Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, on Monday said the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government deliberately created fuel scarcity to intimidate Nigerians into accepting a raise in pump price.He claimed that the federal government intended to increase the pump price, but didn’t know how to go about it.

Belgium goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois has revealed what Chelsea manager, Antonio Conte told them about Victor Moses during the Premier League barren draw with Everton on Saturday.Courtois revealed that Conte reminded the outfield players to pass the ball more often to the skillful lateral players, including Victor Moses.

Ghana says its decision to vote against the United States’ recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel was in keeping with African Union and United Nations resolutions.The Permanent Representative to the U.N., Martha Amama Pobee, espoused the West African nationa’s position on Twitter after a user tweeted at her seeking an explanation.

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, who is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence for human rights abuses, was pardoned on Sunday for "humanitarian and health reasons."

According to a statement from current President Pedro Paulo Kuczynski's office, Fujimori "suffers from a progressive, degenerative and incurable disease. Prison conditions mean a serious risk to his life, health and integrity."

The Visionscape Group has taken delivery of a fresh batch of environment sanitation trucks to beef up its fleet ahead of the formal launch of the Cleaner Lagos Initiative (CLI) in early 2018.The batch comprising compactors, trash trucks, trailer heads and other utility vehicles, were driven in an extended convoy from the port to one of the Group’s maintenance depots in Lagos.

15-year-old Katsina housewife, Dausiya Abdulmumini, has confessed that she killed her husband, 27-year-old Saminu Usman with N40 rat poison.Dausiya had last week, poisoned her husband, Usman and her half brother to death in Ungwar Dan Mayaki village, Bakori local government area of Katsina State.

Nigerian business mogul and security expert, Ubong King who proposed to his wife in 1997 when had nothing has narrated how he bought a vessel in 2015 and named it after her.He shared the above photo and wrote;

Twenty members of the same extended family were killed today in a head-on bus collision while travelling to Christmas Day mass.The tragedy occurred in the northern Philippines, police said.A small bus taking the group to a dawn church service crashed into a larger bus in the town of Agoo killing the 20 on board, including six children, police said.

President Muhammadu Buhari has given the reason behind his healthy looks after battling ill-health which made him spend the better part of the year outside the country on medical vacation.He said while as an army general, he could give orders but the sickness forced him to take orders from doctors.

The president said this when he received Mohammed Bello, minister of the federal capital territory, at his official residence in Aso Rock on Monday.

A gang of assassins attacked the house of a Pastor in Ogbia Main town of Ogbia local government area, Bayelsa State on Friday 22nd December.An exclusive with the victims revealed that the incident happened around 11pm and lasted for almost 4 hours.

The World Health Organisation, WHO, says there were 32 positive cases of yellow fever infection in Nigeria between 2nd of July through 19th of December 2017.The confirmed cases are part of 63 samples sent to the regional reference laboratory, Institut Pasteur de Dakar, IPD, in Senegal, for confirmation of yellow fever infection from 341 suspected cases reported from 16 states of the Federation.

On-loan Everton forward Henry Onyekuru is out for the rest of the season after tearing his medial ligament.The 20-year-old is on loan at Anderlecht but was injured during Friday’s 1-0 win over his former club Eupen and was taken off on a stretcher in the 78th minute.

On the 23rd of December, 2017, beauty queen and winner of Miss Nigeria 2010, Damilola Agbajor and her husband Damilola Adu, held their traditional marriage, which family, friends and loved ones turned up for.

A 17-year-old in northern Virginia is facing two counts of murder for allegedly killing his girlfriend's parents after the couple tried to get their daughter to stop dating him because of his suspected neo-Nazi views.According to police and family members who spoke to the media, the couple, Scott and Buckley Kuhn-Fricker, were shot in their home by the teenager, who then shot himself.

Akin Osuntokun, a former Political Adviser to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, has given reasons why ex-Vice President, Atiku Abubakar may not defeat President Muhammadu Buhari, come 2019.Osuntokun, a former Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, said though the Waziri of Adamawa has the financial strength and connection, North will vote Buhari because they are opposed to restructuring of the country.

Matt Damon's father, Kent, has passed away at the age of 74 after a long battle with cancer. Damon's father died from complications involving multiple myeloma.Damon’s diagnosis with multiple myeloma, a rare and incurable blood cancer that weakens the body’s ability to fight infection, was first revealed in 2011. At the time, Matt Damon told WCVB that Kent would “fight (the disease) to a standstill.”

A young lady named Amanda has just been released from Kirikiri prison where she's spent the last 6-years largely allegedly due to her refusal to have sex with an IPO in charge of her case.According to Prince Gwamnishu Harrison who shared her story

Police in Iran detained 230 boys and girls at different parties in the capital Tehran on Thursday night.Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency reported on Friday, that officers arrested 140 of the young partygoers in a garden on the outskirts of Tehran and 90 in the city's uptown while dancing and drinking alcohol.

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A former Boko Haram Chief Intelligence Officer, CIO, Abdulkadir Abubakar, has warned the leader of the group, Abubakar Shekau, to stop using innocent girls who are being hypnotised as human bombs.

Mr. Abubakar, also known as Abu Muhammad, also warned other factional leaders of the group like Mamman Nur, Abbor Mainok, Abu Musad Albarnawi and Abbah Minok to repent from their deadly ways and embrace peace.

Abayomi Ekundayo popularly known as Yomi SARS, has opened up on his inability to perform at Olmaide's OLIC.According to sources, Yomi was unable to perform as the organisers didn't know what to expect should he go on stage following the #ENDSARS campaign that have taken over social media.

An Abuja-based couple, Ayo and Khadijat Yahaya, are cooling their heels in the custody of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and other related offences for allegedly burning the private parts of their two-year-old son in the Kuje area of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.

NAPTIP operatives told Punch correspondent on Sunday that the couple would spend the Christmas holidays in the cell, after which they would be arraigned in court on Wednesday.

Cool FM OAP and ‘Free the sheeple’ movement leader, Daddy Freeze, has reacted to former President Goodluck Jonathan’s spokesperson, Reno Omokri’s tweets which declared Christmas as an abomination and a blasphemous festival. Daddy Freeze who took to Instagram to share his thoughts which backed Reno’s declaration, wrote;“Reno, any day I see you just know I will embarrass you!

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has traced 38 choice houses to a former Chairman of the Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), Dr. Ngozi Olojeme.Mrs Olojeme, Deputy Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Goodluck Campaign Organisation in 2015, is being investigated by the EFCC for alleged diversion of $48,485,127 from the accounts of the NSITF.

Some state governors elected under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have explained that they supported the emergence of Uche Secondus as PDP National Chairman because of his strength, character and honesty.Also, PDP National Chairman, Uche Secondus prophesied that the new National Working Committee will take the party to the Promised Land.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission says the sum of N27bn, which formed part of the proceeds of the sale of Power Holding Company of Nigeria, was shared among top government functionaries in 2014.

The EFCC disclosed this in a court paper filed before the Federal High Court in Abuja on December 5, 2017.

Lekki Conservation Company (LCC) says it will no longer increase the fares on the toll gate at the Victoria Island end of the Lekki-Epe and Ikoyi link bridge.LCC had issued a statement to announe its plan to hike tariff on both tolls, effective from January 2018.

Halima, one of the daughters of President Muhammadu Buhari, says her father told her that she must study hard because he has nothing to offer than education.Halima said this while speaking in a video documentary titled ‘The Human Side of President Buhari’.

Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti, says he has ordered 80 percent of the petrol in the government house dump to be pumped out and sold at N145 per litre.The governor, who disclosed this in a series of tweets, said he “cannot keep fuel in the government house while people in the state suffer”.

An armed robber died from his partner’s bullet during a foiled robbery attack on one Francis Chibueze, along Bakery road, Azikoro village, Yenagoa.Confirming the incident on Sunday, the spokesman of the State Police Command, Asinim Butswat, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the armed robber mistakenly shot and killed his partner.

National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, has said that Nigeria would return to the party.Secondus said this at the thanksgiving service in honour of his emergence as the National Chairman of the PDP, which held at the Rivers State Ecumenical Centre in Port Harcourt on Sunday.

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has said the current fuel scarcity is a deliberate attempt to sabotage the celebration of Christmas.The Association while reacting to the resurfacing long queues at filling stations across the country expressed worry over the sudden increase in fuel price.

Guatemala is to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, President Jimmy Morales said Sunday, becoming the first leader to back US President Donald Trump’s controversial change of stance on the holy city.